Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are created after an event occurred and offer a review or an analysis of the event; they provide an interpretation of the primary source or data without offering new data.
Examples of secondary sources would be:
- Biographies, nonfiction books
- Editorials
- Literary commentaries, criticism and reviews
- Reposts
- Periodicals (such as scholarly journals, magazines, or newspapers)
Watch the video below by KU Libraries explaining what makes an article peer reviewed.
Sources
East Central University – Information Literacy Defined © 2021 by Shawna Bishop, Haley Monroe, and Brandi Schur is adapted from The Insiders: Information Literacy for Okies Everywhere, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
These are sources of information created after an event has occurred and offer a review or analysis of the event. They provide an interpretation of a primary source or data. Examples include: biographies, nonfiction books, and literary criticism.
